The day of April 29, which corresponds with the Hebrew date of the 27th day of Nissan, marking the annual Day of Remembrance, was designated as Warsaw Ghetto Day in a proclamation issued today by Governor Nelson Rockefeller of the State of New York. A similar proclamation is being issued by Mayor Wagner, addressed to the people of the City of New York.
The 22nd anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising will be commemorated with a huge rally on Thursday, April 29, at Times Square, which will be renamed for the occasion “Warsaw Ghetto Square.” The commemoration of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in Times Square will be held under the auspices of the Zionist Organization of America and co-sponsored by 30 other national and metropolitan organizations. Principal speakers at the rally will be Senators Jacob K. Javits and Robert F. Kennedy; Morris Abram, U.S. representative of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, who is also president of the American Jewish Committee, and Dr. Max Nussbaum, president of the ZOA. The memorial prayer will be recited by Metropolitan Opera tenor Richard Tucker.
National and metropolitan organizations co-sponsoring the commemoration of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising include: American Federation of Jews from Central Europe, American Jewish Committee, American Jewish Congress, American Zionist Council, American Zionist Youth Commission, American Zionist Youth Council, New York Zionist Youth Council, Betar Zionist Youth Organization, B’nai B’rith Metropolitan Council Bnai Dror Youth Organization, Bnai Zion, Club of Polish Jews, Jewish Nazi Victims Organization of America, Jewish War Veterans of the United States, Masada Young Zionists, and Mizrachi Hat zair.
Also, the National Council of Jewish Women, National Young Judaea, New York Board of Rabbis, Pioneer Women, Rumanian Jewish Federation of America, Synagogue Council of America, United Galician Jews of America, United Labor Zionist Party of the U.S.A., United Synagogue of America, United Zionists-Revisionists of America, Warsaw Ghetto Resistance Organization. World Jewish Congress–American Section, and the Zionist Organization of American.
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